O soul, are you weary and troubled?

Wordless Wednesday~Annual trip to Gettysburg PA

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Rylie doesn't like the letter A

A few post down I wrote about how I am trying to have Rylie learn her A B C's. I am mostly focusing on letter recognition. I mentioned that we had started with the letter A. So, I had been pointing to the A on her wall, showing her the A magnet on the fridge and going over the letter A on the Starfall website, but she just wasn't getting it. A few times she would say A, but mostly, I would say, Rylie tell me what letter this is, and she would say, P , R or W. Then she decided to take the A sign off of the bedroom wall and tear it up in a million pieces. I started to get frustrated, thinking why isn't she getting this. It's so simple. She is very teachable, especially with repetition.

So today we sat down and went onto the Starfall website. As soon as the A popped up she got really mad, and said NO, and covered her face with her hands. I said, fine then, lets try another letter. I pulled up the R, B, C and D and she learned them right away. I pulled up the A again and she told me P, R and NO!!!!!! So, back to the R, B, C and D we went, and she did great!!!! We even learned the signs for each letter. She really liked signing the letters too, as long as it wasn't the A.

I have no idea what she has against the letter A, but for now we will skip it and work on the rest of the alphabet.

Memorial Day- You must watch

My friend Dawn just sent this to me:

Get a load of these high school kids. One of the fathers recorded it, added some graphic enhancements to the recording, and posted it on the web. The song, of course, is the 'Battle Hymn Of The Republic.' It will send a few shivers up your spine.http://www.greatdanepromilitary.com/Battle%20Hymn/index.htm

Wordless Wednesday-WEEEEEE!!!!!

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A-B-C

I have a goal for Rylie. It is for her to recognize each letter of the alphabet by the time she goes to kindergarten in the fall. She can sing the alphabet song, but technically, she doesn't know her ABC's. I have decided to write the letters really big on construction paper and tape them to the wall in her room. We will do two letters per week. Yesterday we started with A (of course). We just kept going over it all day. Every time we go in her room, I ask her,"what letter is this"? Half of the time she would say A, and the other half of the time she would say, P or R. When she got it right, we would start dancing, and I made up a little song about the letter A.

If anybody else has any good advice about teaching a child w/ Ds letter recognition, I would love to hear it!

About the Wordless Wed. pic below:

Whenever Cesalie cries, or even whimpers a little, Rylie starts saying, Cessie BA BA!!! In other words-Get Cesalie's bottle now, so I don't have to hear her cry!
I hear it all day, so when I saw this picture below, I automatically thought Cessie BA BA! And speaking of Cesalie's bottle, Rylie has started to steal them away from her and drink them. Yuck! It's one thing if she drinks her juice, but she actually will drink her formula. Why? Why would formula taste good to a five year old who hasn't had formula since she was a baby?(jealousy,maybe?) Yesterday Cesalie was constipated. I had one little baby bottle of prune juice left. I gave it to Cesalie and Rylie stole it and drank it when I wasn't looking! Cesalie is still constipated ,and do I even need to tell you about how Rylie IS NOT constipated!?!